Sentence examples for penalty speech from inspiring English sources

As a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and a fervid opponent of the death penalty, I am still deeply troubled by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's death penalty speech.

In the case of (Charlotte) Anita Whitney Whitneyy v. California, 1927), a communist who had been convicted under a state criminal-syndicalism statute, he delivered a concurring opinion urging that penalties on speech be applied only if they met the "clear and present danger" (of inciting to admittedly illegal acts) test formulated earlier by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

At lower input SNRs, the SSNR measure is dominated by the benefit of noise reduction while ignoring the penalty due to speech distortion.

On the other hand, SSNR measure is dominated at lower input SNRs by the benefit of noise reduction ignoring the penalty due to speech distortion.

Pope Francis called out America for practicing the death penalty in his speech to Congress last week and specifically called for Glossip to be spared in the hours leading up to his scheduled demise.

Donald Trump pledged to give police killers the death penalty in a speech he delivered to an audience of police officers in New Hampshire, as the Republican presidential frontrunner was endorsed by a major police union.

By now, Welch had become a full-time crusader against the death penalty, arguing in speeches around the country that the people who quote Scripture to justify capital punishment in America are the same people who were against abolishing slavery and against extending voting rights to women.

This is a considerable penalty-expressed in average speech levels in "cocktail party" conditions this is equivalent to a threefold increase of the number of interfering talkers.

If so, it may go some way to proving one of Dr Crow's other theories that madness is the penalty people pay for free speech.

There was one unexpected bit of local color: a few death-penalty protesters briefly interrupted his speech before being removed by security officers.

As prime minister and finance minister, he wielded enormous authority: in April, the government pushed through harsh penalties and restrictions on free speech, particularly on social media.